Colm Ó Briain: A Coat of Many Colours

Colm Ó Briain was perhaps the single most important and influential figure in the Irish arts world from the 1960s to the early 21st century.

As founder of the Project Arts Centre, as theatre and television director, first full-time Director of the Arts Council, General Secretary of the Labour Party, advisor to the first Minister for the Arts, Michael D. Higgins, and finally, Director of the National College of Art and Design, he was an extraordinarily effective advocate for the importance of the arts in private and public life in Ireland.

This volume of contributions from family, friends and colleagues gives a rounded picture of the many areas in which Colm's passion for the arts flourished.  It is also a fascinating portrait of a singular personality and the world that formed him.